Paul Ryan’s Spending Battle

By

Jim Manley

Nov 10, 2015 2:23 pm ET

House Speaker Paul Ryan is fully in charge. And in the next several weeks, he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have to figure out how to translate 12 House and Senate Republican appropriations bills, filled with tens of billions in cuts to administration priorities large and small as well as hundreds of objectionable riders–such as a proposal to gut the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan–into a single package that can get bipartisan support in the Senate and the president’s signature.